Memcached on Heroku w/ Django : can't install pylibmc / memcacheify

Question

I\'ve spent a lot of time on this and it\'s clearly beyond my newbie understanding/skills. I tried to install django-heroku-memcacheify with pip install, which throws errors. I

Answer 1

You need libmemcached installed.

You don't need the development headers or anything, the regular ones are more than enough!

If you can't install libmemcached, you can't install pylibmc. Sorry about that but there's not much to do about it.

There is a way to get around this but it's a crap idea so message me if you want the details.